—— ———————— A HOT
EVERYDAY LIFE,
tures which Show That
Stranger Than Fiction,
rogal patient. « A Boston lady beat this,
She once paid an English physician $23,-
000 for his services.
A Dr.
Daxter author told
tomanine, who would steal from himself.
onions, or anything of the kind.
ough, Ky., workmen discovered a dark-
be a toad.
less, but upon coming in contact with
the air showed sigas of life and soon be
gan to hop.
OX a recent Sunday, for the first time
Bay was nearly as fresh as the water of a
mountain stream. This condition
affairs was brought about by a strong
northeast wind that blew continuously
during the week.
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twelve days old and u-uslly by the
mother. Sometimes the father wishes
for another name than that selected by
the mother. In that case two lamps are
placed over the two names, and the
name over which the lamp burns the
brightest is the one given to the child.
Tuinty-FIve years ago a rich farmer
died at Ridgeway, Pa., first telling his
heirs that they'd find $25,000 in the
attio. Jut they didn't, though they
doubtless looked. Recently the house
was sold to Andrew Benner, who found
7.000 of the money and told about it
living, aod
brought suit to recover.
Ir is a Parisienne who has tsken the
cake at shoplifting She was accom
panied by a nurse carrying a Laby—a
very convenient baby that never cried,
not ever when its hollow pasteboard
body was stuffed uncomfortably full of
laces and jewels, acquired without
money and without pr il the
of reckoning that somehow never!
came at last,
unt
ice, unt (IRY
Ais
Tue town of Hart, Ga., boasts a not-
able specimen of the albino negro The
man was once pure black, but for years
his skin has been changiog uniil now he
is white all over with the exception of a
few dark spots. Not only is he white
but much whiter than most white men,
his changed skin being a clear, milky
whiteness. The transformation kas been
natursl and unattended Ly any pala or
inconveniance.
h
v
Axoxa the Wel “bidding wed.
dings" were former the custom, the
bride and groom sending out notices to
all their friends announcing the wedding
and soliciting All married
persons to whom either made a present
on the wedding occasion are expected to
return an article of the same kind and
value, and the ‘bidding paper” promises
that new gifts shail be faithfully re
d when
4
i
i
presents
retuar
corded and scrupulously
the donors are themasel
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YER MArrie
Tue latest instance of crime
its own punishment comes, of
thority of Dr. Leonard Guth
Italy. An Italisn w
band. and the husband had the dro
Bat the dropsy did not work quickly
enough. The woman put a toad into her
husband's wine to poison him. But the
poison which the toad’'s skin secretes has
an active prioeiple—phryn which
much resembles digitalis, which is the
best possible remedy for dropsy pending
on heart disease. So, instead of killing
her husband, she restored him to health.
unan had a
10 -
A cunriovs example of how sharply
the edge of a windstorm may be defined
is reported by the captain of the bark
Peter Tredell, which recently arrived at
San Diego from London When off
Valparaiso, the captain says, a whirl
wind came along and passed over the
stern of the vessel. A great sea accom
pavied the wind, and every sail and
movable thing on the after part of the
ship was carried away, The forward
part of the vessel was untouched by the
storm, which passed away in the dis
tance, leaving a train of foam in its
wake.
Ax interesting discussion has sprung
up among the palmists in regard to the
line «f the hand known as the
marriage line. One recognized
thority says that when this line curves
upward the possessor is not likely to
marry at all. Other experts reply that
they know many married and happy peo-
ple with such a line. [It is also alleged
that the traverse line on the ‘‘hill of
Mercury,” which one party says is the
marriage line, is not so considered by the
Chirologieal Society.
says, the editor of the party organ, ‘‘is
that these lines are signs of attachment,
and there is scarcely a hand ever seen
without at least one in the hand of either
married or unmarried people.”
Two shocking cases of miscarriage of
justice are reported, one frum France
and the other from Germany. In France
sixteen years’ imprisonment on the dis
covery that she is entirel
death of her husband an
in-law, with the responsibility for which
she had been charged; while in Germany
a oashier of the ministry of finance, who
was in the penitentiary for having em-
bezzled a sum of 5,000 marks, has been
liberated after twelve years’ incarceration
on it being brought to light that there
had been no money stolen and that the
apparent discrepancy had been due to a
mistake on the pst of the auditors. In
neither case will the victim have any re.
dress, as the law does not provide for
any such judicial errors.
Amoxc many quaint customs which are
gradually disapponiog is the so-called
‘Lion Sermon,” which, after having been
annually preached in the Church of St.
Oatherine, in the oity of London, for
pearly three centuries, has just been
sholished. It owes its origin to an ad-
venture which befell a mediseval Lord
According to the legend, being attacked
| by a lion while traveling with a caravan
| in Arabia, he fell upon his knees and
vowed to devote his life to charity if
spared from the lion's jaws. The animal
is stated to have thereupon turned tail;
{ and in pursuance of the vow thus made,
| the *‘ Lion Sermon” has been regularly
preached ever since.
Ax ancient ceremony was revived on
the occasion of the procession of judges
i at tho law courts in London,
i
}
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4
LOBENGULA THE CORPULANT
SOUTH AFRICA RULER.
acter, But Is an Kzeessively Cruel
Monarch.
Lobengula, the Matabele King, whose
| president of the Admiralty Court; and
bench the oar was laid ou the table im
laid in front of the speaker.
Middle Temple to Admiral 8ir Francis
malin,
| Theatre of London
night. In the play a ghost comes an and
frichtens one of the characters, who
rushes wildly about calling for help. A
troupe of educated dogs, which were
on the stage, headed by the gallant
Bruce. They immediately made for the
astonished ghost, who jumped upon a
table in the centre of the stage, and,
there surrounded by the pack, implored
somebody to call off the dogs. Never,
probably, has a spectre so entirely lost
hig dignity, while the aundience was &
convulsed that it was some time after the
animals were removed before the per
formance could proceed
A nerorr from Butte, Mont., says that
when Mr. McConville, of that place, killed
a chicken for dinner recently he found
its crop and gizzard full of
He immediately killed all other
chickens and found the thirty one
crops and gizeards RIR7.55 worth of
gold 18 karats fine, an average of $12.50.
1-6 per chicken. Mr. McConville
willing to abate even the sixth of a cent
from the story, as it amounts to a good
deal from a number of chickens, He at
once ought fifty more chickens and put
them in his gold pasture, and in foar
days’ time one of them showed aa ac
cumulation of £2 80 worth of gold, or
70 cents a day. Mr. McUonviile pro
to buy the chickens he
can find and work, ex
pecting soon to imuiate a large
property
gold nuggets
his
in
is not
i
ther
aco
OSes
set n to
A queer story, and one which readers
would do well salt (yg
it more than the proverbialgrain) before
swallowing, w first-cl
to thoroughly give
Comes ith
commendation all the way from Eng
Thirty-three years ago
ber of the Chaplin |
ney,
1860.
smily d
in
ied at Bl:
and was i in the
family tomb. This particular Chaplin
was a nsturalist, snd his other
pets bad a large gray That bat
was permitted to enter the tomb and was
sealed up alive slong f
his dead master. In
opened, and to
bat was alive and
ent
looked after the well
Lincolnshire, aid
among
bat
with the corpse o
1846 the vault was
surprise of all the
fat Op four differ.
since the Chapling have
are {f their dead
relative’s pet, and cach time it has been
reported that bat
land of the living, although
quarters Lie
the
occasions
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the was still in the
occupying
He was last
with dea
seen In IN,
Ox November 17, Alexander Hooks
resid in Sj er township
County, Ind., about twenty fis
«est of New Albany, celebrates
hundred and fourteenth i
his birth He was born
November 17, 1779. th
claimed, being a ithentieated by a record
of a family Bible, now in the old man's
possession, When quite young he came
to Kentucky with his parents, but re
moved to Indians when that State was a
part of the great Northwestern Territory.
Seventy years ago he removed to his
farm in Harrison County, on which he
now resides, and bas lived there contin
nously since that time. His wife is still
living, at the sge of eighty-six years,
and is sufficiently active to perform
many of the household duties. Mr,
Hockaday still retains his mental facul
ties ulmost unimpaired, and is wonder.
fully setive for his years
he has voted at every Presidential slees
tion since 1800, a period of ninety three
years.
Spend
ner
i
live many years more
Tue British ship Lanark arrived in
sort two days ago, says the Philadelphia
ore Yesterday the physician
the British consulate went aboard to ea
amine the crew, Three-fourths are Las-
The docto.
found six suffering from heart affection
and two from other diseases,
two were in a serious condition. The
doctor, through an interpreter, told one
he must be removed to a hospital. The
crew gathered around the physician and
uttered furious protests. The sick ma
! said he would die rather than leave the
ship and his countrymen. A Lasoar eats
| nothing but food prepaied by a country-
iman; a Christian touching it would
| cause contamination, and anyone partak-
ing of it after this defilement loses caste.
| This was why the sick man preferred
death to leaving the vessel. He con.
solemnly promised that he should have
food prepared by one of the crew, and
be permitted to leave, whether sick
or well, when his ship cleared this port.
Then he nud the other sick man, who is
an Egyptian, were taken to the Medico.
Chirurgical hospital, Not another Las.
ear could be indaced to leave the ship.
They bave their own cook, who mixes
the food on a square stone, mashes and
boils it. Riee, tea, currie, and water
form the main part of their diet. Under
an agreement between the Indian Steam.
ship association sod the British govern.
ment better care is taken of the Indian
than of the English sailors. The Lascars
ship under special and separate articles,
which provides the kind of food they are
to have, permit to worship as they please,
and stipulate warmer clothing and
plenty of it in cold climates. Little
meat is eaten, for only those of a certain
caste are allowed to indulge. The Las.
cars on the Banark are Buddhists and
»
Africa has called general attention to
that part of the world, is the son of the
of the country now known as Matabele-
land and the Mashons country, Alter
they hud been subdued he took up his
residence at Inyati and formed a large
military kraa! now known as Iryatine,
where Lobengula was born. Maselikatze,
known also Umselekatze, ruled his
people with a rod of iron and Kept an
army of 8,000 warriors, and could bring
more into the field if required. He was
a king who knew how to rule his tarbu.
lent subjects; a splendid warrior himself,
he took care that his troops should be s0
likewise.
He died in 1869, and at his death,
after some dispute about who should be
his successor, Lobengula was proclaimed
King with great rejoicings. Warriors to
the number of 10,000 assembled to do
homage to their new King. From that
time up to the present he has held un
disputed possession of the throne He
took up his residence ut Buluwayo, sitn
ated some sixty miles south of Inyatine,
which he form:d into
station, and where he
Lobengula a man great fo
character: his will is law, and it
f hissubijects to dispute
i
ns
a large military
has since resided
{ ie
of of
would
i%
be death to any o
his authority. It is by this iron will that
he is ab He is tall
and well bint very corpu
lent. His royal wife died
120, leaving Lolx nw
ie to rule his people
1 i
proportioned
MANY Years
nou dower, ]
some fort fiftv wives to console |
the Kiog of Gaziland,
Mashonpa country
marriage his sister
hold, and
Not
rother 8 marriage
Io get
vad her smothered
His cn
It is LY his
upon the Mashoo
selty, in
a the slight
tain regiments to §
Kraal, where seve
HOO or 800 Mash
sed security
oat
i 5
lar
distribated
y forget
mans chara
conversation with 1
instantly if a man i
[ only kt
semsed by him
Lobengul
if woud |
minut
detect
him false
know of ot grown] quality pos
he is fond « hildred
a Durning pid
1 the fire and ives] Lhe
byern Lime
2 himself! took
fon dest
eves and of one of his men
he threw a ston
nose
knocked
this was witness:
it a child and
out its front teeth i by
one of the traders
A short time ago he ordered a
Raflir to be killed for pulling a straw out
of the thatch of ope of his huts
one is allowed to touch these on pain of
h dle
ordering the deaths of Captain Patterson,
Mr. sen of Sir W
and young Mr. Thomas
Mr. Thomas, of Shiloh), while their
way to the Victoria Falls [tiey ware
warned that foul play was intended, but
they would not believe the report. Warn
their death was reported to the King he
said to some of the w hile traders, ‘Now
Captain Patterson is dead the agreement
goes for nothing.” They had previously
entered into a creement with the
King, which afterwards regretted,
and he disposed of the matter ia the
way we have just mentioned No doe
uments were found on the bodies, On
another occasion, which will be last out
of many more I could relate, a large impi
went into the Mashona country, where
they killed all the old people, making
some of the women and big girls carry
young
dent There is no wibt about his
Sargeant Sargeant,
«on of the Rev
on
fOMme
ne
made them put the things down on the
ground and then Killed them, that they
might not run away if brought into
Matabeleland, The children, who soon
forgot the land they had left, were pre-
served,
LiKE A HEART IN HIS LEG,
Interesting Operation on a SE
Louis Patient.
Di. Marks, Superintendent of the City
Hospital, cus a heart out of a man's leg
the otuer day, Instead of being neces.
sary to the patient's existence, as hearts
usually are, this organ was a very dan.
gerous possession and was likely to end
Lis lite st any moment. The heart was
almost as large as the one usually found
inside a man's ribs, and beat in very
much the same manner, It was situated
upon the iuside of the right leg, four or
five ioches above the knee, and was
more tender than the ball of the owner's
An
eye.
Charles Gentry, a laborer, was the
owner of this very remarkable organ.
To the surgeons the phenomenon is
called a traumatic aneurism of the fem.
oral artery. This artery is the big blood
feeding pipe that runs from the heart
down through the body and leg, furnish-
ing lifesto the different parts of the an-
atomy as it About two months
sgo Gentry was struck upon the leg
.
[ just over the artery by a shaft of a pieos
; of machinery, The inner wall of the
artery was burst, and the big pipe began
| to bulge out at this point. The outer
| wall, or cost of the artery, luckily
stretched and held the blood, or Gentry
would have bled to death in no time,
| The nrtery kept on swelling with every
| pulsation of the patient's heart From the
| size of a hazelnut the bulge grew and grew
| until it was larger than a man's fist, How
| the artery managed to stand it without
| bursting was u matter for wonder even
[ to the surgeons, The least touch given
the skin over the swelling caused
Gentry horrible pain, and he was obliged
to keep very still lest any sudden move-
ment or contact would break and by the
hemorrhuge bring on death. The aneur
ism could be secu to beat to
and purposes like any other heert.
one brought his ear close to it he could
hear a constantly repeated flowing or
breathing sound coming from bepsath
the skin, This poise was caused by the
vacant air space around the swollen
artery where it had crowded the mus.
cles aside
The other day Dr. Marks, decided to
operate in order to save Gentrys life,
‘Fhe aneurism was preceptibly growing,
and was bound to burst soon. The pa.
the operating table
influence of chloro.
laid the
femoral artery
{10
tient was laid upon
and placed under the
form. A sharp knife
aside aud exposed the
ith its apple-shaped bulb. The artery
was then tied, or ‘ligated,’ twenty-one
inches above and two below the
swelling, and the big bulb cut open.
orth and
tissues
inches
Ni arly a pint of blood gushed f
then thore no heart left. The slit
artery was then sawed together with
silk threads previously soaked im
antiseptic solutions, and left heal
The ligntures above and below were left
to remain, however, the artery is
fully healed. Ther will be untied
and the blood allow 4 a down
entry's leg mean
WAS
ine
to
Ww
v
unt
time th
receive
blood from and will
1} ntobal :
!
fs
Louis
in all
wt
WASTE ABOARD BiG SHIPS,
Kulves, Dishes, Table Linen & China
brown Overboard
ig Cunarder
au in.
eves apd
A man came over on the b
his
WAY, and
i i of the slew
ire to the steerage,’
i i be
d the stew
'
eamen onli
o off it
i
ny i
won
so the
benefit
80
y are
uy that
t snl
at | won
r disregard
{ake
and
bucket,
nis would
i con
woud
i Gishes
or
cke
ves and
nd de
fate and cof
wat eaten the
ert
: 10 the hucket
was «quell
stite and down
OY as 18h
“number
day
the
went
¥
Vv Y ERITH
ds thr four tis
throughout a trip,
crockery, sils
swerboard i
it that anything ard
ery! i i
gets ba
of stewa anda nes a
and in every
re and Iaicket
may take my word for
CREP
rw
carries below
never pet 4
risk of des
s trouble,
Bain, Nol oni)
fection but because « {
wubt, though s risk 18 very
them.
destru
new, hand
of the ofhicers are
X dingiy CRiel and
nd
°
i
dankets taken into an officer's room
to a rug while taking a
bath When finished the blankets
were rollad up anid quietly dropped down
the And that happened a num
ber of during the voyage, too
No. 1 can't suggest a remedy, and the
company wonidn't ext ud me a vote of
thanks if 1 could. but it seems to me it
wonld pay to bave those things looked
into a little and a responsibic man placed
in direct charge of affairs
A stewards pay is very small, ranging
from £5 to $30 a month, but never ex
ceeding the latter sum. In many cases
they get no pay at all. but, instead, not
only work without a stipend but also pay
the company for the privilege of serving
it, = 8¢. Louis Post Dispatch],
wogne |
for him Use 4%
lie
chiuts
tines
} Materials of Paper
Paper cau be manufactured out of al-
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JESTS AND
MEN OF
YARNS BY FUNNY
THE 'IKSS,
Deceptive — A Standing Literature
An Eye for Bargalns
Ache In Sight, Ete , Fite
DECEPTIVE.
Visitor—Hark !
railroad collision !
Host—Oh, no. That's Charlie's col
lege club in the barn practicing a new
yell.
That must be another
A STANDING IN LITERATURYF
“What can you show by way of evi
I've got the writer's cramp. snd the
doctors all say so,
AN EYE YOR BARGAINS
Father—Is that voung girl
going to marry coonomical?
Son (enthusiasticalis{—1 should =
Why last yeut she spent $2. 500 in
bargains, — [Chicago Re
YOu are
ay
a!
ora
A BTOMACH ACHE IN
said the
what the
Tommy
know
'
you word
means?
Yes'm :
fan You
‘Yes'mn
“You may do so
‘last night my mamma to
tor he might as well call
me Thanksgiving night
Btar,
give i
{
5 in
’
a the dot
sround and see
Washing
ONE NEPLAS rug bres
Miss Manhattar
must miss the
much.
rd
tes
iffnot
di Ar "
will be oareful nottogp
“Humph ”
replid the dyspeptis bit nd, ‘th
¥ men hat shows
1 ponsiderati
wife, *‘vou
voar feel wel, w
a ¢}
at's the
pst
Ii YOu have
with § ow
'
way
about how
for a
man
Ippose you'd be satisfied
to see me break my neck trying to walk
on my hands, wouldn't
Washington Star
down to my office
COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF HIMSELY,
“Reginald, i the young
father. “vou couldn't earn your
“Oh, ves, | could, fathabh,” he replied,
complacently, and, after some thought,
he added, “but [ might bave to fall back
03 you f peppah { Washington
Siar
man s
31 anil.
oh the
MARRIAGE WITHOUT MOTIVE
Mistress Tou
my service Now,
you to go away {
Servant -1t's no motive, madame; it’
Paris Gaulois,
going 19 leave
what motive impels
0 are
=
a soldier!
HAD ENOUGH
Judge Why atdn't you « all a police
man when the man assaulted you with a
club?
Citizen
heavens!
Call a policeman! Good
Your Honor, wasn't | thumped
| pulp. Over fifty Kinds of bark are said
ito be used, bansna skins, bean
| stalks, pea vines, covoanut fibre, clover
and timothy hay, straw, sea and fresh
are applic able.
from hair, fur and wool, from asbestos,
can be made into paper: There sre pat
ents for making paper from sawdust and
shavings, from thisties and thistledown,
from tobacco stalks aod tanbark. It is
said that there are over 2,000 patents in
this country covering the manufacture of
paper. La
The Chinese Navy Worthless
sn ——-
It is stated at Shanghai, ‘on excellent
authority,” that the real reason why none
of the Chinese squadron went to Bang-
kok, was that it was found there one of
the squadron for such a voyage
without refitting, the internal condition
of the ironclads and cruisers of Chioa's
Bavy being very imperfect. (London
News.
A AAAI,
AN EXCEPTION
“Awe you going to--to wear that big
to the theatre!” the young man
asked
“Yes, George.”
And that is what confirmed George's
suspicions that she is an angel.—Wash.
ington Star.
WHAT HE RETAINED,
said the man in the s moker to a group
of listeners, *‘and had both legs and
both arms broken.” “Did you retain
your presence of mind?” inquired one of
the listen'rs. “No.” **No! What
did you do!” *'I retained a lawyer and
it $10,000 damage.” [Detroit Free
ross.
LIMITATIONS OF MATRIMONY,
Little Boy What is your papa?
Little Girl--He's a liverary man,
“What's that!"
“ie writes,”
“What does ie write?”
“Oh, he writes most everything ‘cept
checks, "wu [Good News.
A LITERAL TRUTH,
“1 think your figures are pretty high,”
said the lad te was Ee
scracely percepitible twinkle in his eye.
I ars oye.
New York Press.
!
i dEN1 APPRECIATED,
I “Bay; said the business man to the
detective, ‘some fellow has been runniog
around through the country representing
himsel! as a collector of ours, He bas
' been taking ip more money thes any two
{of the men we have, and | want him
| gollared ns quick as you can.”
“All right. I'll have him in j iil in less
than a week.”
“Great Scott, men! don't want to put
him in § il I want to hire him,
{Indianapolis Journal,
*
WOX BY A FLASK MOVEMENT,
“I'm not going to ssk for money,
mum,” Rbodeside, “nor for food,
though ['m fsint with hunger snd | ain't
eat anything for two days, but for the
; in hard lack,
allow me the
of soap aud a towel for a
fel
sake of a poor man who's
won't vou, please,
loan of a piece
few minutes?”
it
side finished a
forth
ih
mun,
was about one hour late t Rhode
sumptuon sa] and set
with a fifty cent i
cago Record
Ons
THAN
Friend Y our son
college, 1 nm told,
F OnG Mammia-— Y es
Friend —Quarierbach
Fond Mamma-Oh he's nearly all
He
Osl uni
walls have ears
Sure, "answered
Poet
For
not exert
ROI
f
iE
BSINar
ory ol
Ant
this ¢1
tai i
stiit
As a
nnot
wr male falls
his fallen
n ihe
ng
and drinks }
solation to hi x nid feel]
of chival
has
otherwise
The M Hi u
1% 80Ine con
irs. The
encies of
brave and
insectivores,
gg 1 Ged
war been d these
Sentiment and Chicken,
I knew
Dorkings
fowls
As
EL wou
for the
they grew
take a
iter it among
fter a few days
ountenance, he
a couple to be
pla ed in a fattening coop: then, when
he had satisfied himsell that they were
just right, he would send for a man to
ring their necks, giving him wu shilling
for the job, and while the deed was be.
ing done he would off an a long
| walk,
| His wife end danghters were as tender.
| hearted as he was, It ran in the family,
| Yet the servants always notiend that,
whatever they might est or leave on the
| dinger-table, they invariably finished up
{the fowls. This was, possibly, on the
| same principle as actuated one of the
| kings of the Cannibal Islands, who ate
| his grandfather out of respect, Mao.
| millan’s Magazine.
A man kept
table pure
plumper
basket with
them and sigh deeply
of this, with a mournful «
| would give the orders for
every tiny
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The Origin of Starching.
The course of history carries us back
| no further than the year 1654 for the
origin of starching in London. It was
in that year that Mistress Van der Plasse
came with her husband from Flanders to
the English metropolis * ‘for their greater
safety,” aod there professed horsolf a
starcher. The best housewives of the
time were not long in discovering the
excellent whiteness of the ** Dutch linen,”
aa le was called, ath Hdatrens Plasse soon
ently 0 paving clients. Some
of Aon Ea ro sod ho rafie of lawn
to starch, which she did so excellently
well that it became a saying that if any-
one sent her a ruff made of a spider's web
she Mould te ble to starch hae
reat y reputation w
the Ne OT ber 0 for
art mystery . , for
Which they glutly paid a premium of £4
to £3, . for the secret of
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